ClipArt Image Search Engines
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Barry's Clip Art Server | WebSeek Image and Video Search |
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| Web Places 4-engine Clip Art Searcher | Google Image Search | ||
Directories of ClipArt Sites which have Copyright Terms of Use
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| Carnegie Mellon University ASCII art, maps, audio and video. |
adFlip
"adflip.com is the world's largest searchable database of classic print ads. You can search by category, by decade [from the 1940s], even by year. Membership is required.
American Memory from the Library of Congress
"American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience." Although the Library of Congress provides some copyright information about the items in this collection, "it is the researcher's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright or other use restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in the Library's collections."
ClipArt Searcher
Provides a page of forms to search several search engines for photos, fonts, animations and clip art.
Ditto.com
The world's leading visual search engine." "Ditto provides visual search of the web using pictures. Users are linked to the originating web site on which the pictures are located. Should you wish to use any picture, photo or artwork you see during the search process, you must obtain the appropriate permission from the owner of the material."
DK Clip Art
Dorling Kindersley, British market leader in illustrated non-fiction publishing, provides a "mini site will help support class and homework activities with downloads of DK's famous photographs that can be included in your school projects."
Finding Images on the Web
Compiled by Ruth S. Thomas, Art/Art History Bibliographer, Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University Libraries
FindSounds
"A free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples."
Free Graphics, Clip Art, Icons
A compilation of links to graphics collections, including Eyewire and Microsoft and to search engines, such as Yahoo. Part of the Meriam Library Digital Media Bank at Chico State University, the unnamed compiler states: "I tended to skip or de-emphasize sites with backgrounds files, gif animations, lines, bars and rules."
FreeFoto.com
"The photographs are free to private non-commercial users and for sale to other users."
Google
Use the Images search to find graphics. Some may be copyrighted. Advanced Search options will focus your search, allow you to choose file types and sizes, and filter mature content.
Stock.xchng
Known as the "leading free stock photography site." Photographers can share their photographs with others. Collection is browsable by subject. The gallery contains "over 100,000 quality stock photos by more than 9,000 users."
Library Databases
ACC Library Services subscribes to several databases that offer image searching. You can use some of these images for ideas, but if you wanted to manipulate the original for a project, it would be best to acknowledge the source of it. Many of these are from API and other news sources. To get to the databases, begin at the library home page, then select A-Z List of Resources under Find Articles and Research Information. From that list, you might choose: Academic Search Premier, AccessScience, eLibrary, MasterFILE Premier, and Military & Government Collection. The eLibrary database offers audio and video as well as images.
Lycos Multimedia Search
You can choose to block offensive content before searching. If you do not choose "Always" from the block options, you must read and agree to the terms of the "Warning" page regarding mature content to continue a search.
Merriam Library Graphics Sources
from Chico State Library.
Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media Home Page
The site provides a list of topics you can be browsed by category or, you can search the collection and limit your search by type of resource: clip art, photos, animations, sounds, etc. You can also suggest new content.
morgueFile.com
This site, which contains high-resolution digital stock, is maintained by Michael and Kevin Connors "to provide free image reference material for use in all creative pursuits." "The morguefile contains photographs freely contributed by many artists to be used in creative projects by visitors to the site. To acknowledge the artist's accomplishments, we ask that you credit the photographer when possible."
National Geographic Online
Long recognized for the stunning photography that accompanies its articles, the online site provides a photography section that features photo galleries by subject and more.
Northridge Library maintains a file of pictures from magazines, pamphlets, book jackets, and other sources on various topics. The items are arranged alphabetically by subject in filing cabinets and can be borrowed for two weeks.
The NYPL Picture Collection Online
"The digital collection of images presented here ... is taken from the in-print collection of images that New York Public Library has been collecting since 1915. ...the organization and cataloging of the online collection is what makes these images so valuable. Users who wish to order images for commercial use may do so by paying a fee to cover the cost of permissions and licensing." [ALA|MARS Best Ref 2004, Reviewed 9 March 2004]
Picture History
Llibrary of high quality images and footage illustrating more than 200 years of American history,' this site has indexed still images of maps, postcards, photographs, cartoons, stereo cards, periodicals, and more, in addition to video and audio clips. Images can be licensed, purchased or sent as a free e-card from the website." [ALA|MARS Best Ref 2004, Reviewed 23 March 2004]
SURWEB a large collection of digitized photos was a Technology Innovation Challenge Grant project in Utah which began 10 years ago. It is indexed and searchable; you can create multimedia shows online with tools available on the site. The collection includes screen resolution jpegs and high resolution versions of the photos. While it began as a collection of photos primarily of Utah, other collections have been contributed, including a set of 600 aerial photos of Florida. Below is a list of the subject headings, followed by the number of images in each collection.
WebSEEK: Content-based Image and Video Search and Catalog Tool for the Web."WebSEEk is a new effort to catalog the visual information on the World Wide Web. WebSEEk has so far catalogued over 650,000 images and videos from many sites on the WWW, and maybe even your own!"
